Illustration: Inside a small local museum, a visitor has deliberately stepped over a low rope barrier to touch the nose of a displayed wooden horse. Other visitors remain on the public side, one recoiling at the transgression.

JLPT N3verbLevel estimated by Bebop

破やぶる

yaburu

to break a rule or promise

Example sentences

ルールは破やぶるためにあるんだ。
Rules are made to be broken.
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彼かれは約束やくそくを破やぶるような男おとこではない。
He would be the last man to break his word.
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約束やくそくを破やぶらないでよ。
Don’t go back on your promise.
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Kanji in 破

破rend; ripOnハKunやぶる・やぶれる・われる

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